Veterans deserve quality health care, system needs fix

80% of veterans served are satisfied with quality of care

The beleaguered Veterans Administration health system has been an issue for the last four decades as veterans return to American soil from foreign wars.

An assortment of patches have been made to keep the system going, but the 2 million Iraqi and Afghanistan war veterans added to the system has stretched it well beyond its limits. Eighty percent of veterans who are being served are satisfied with the quality of care.

The issue is how to deliver quality care to all who deserve it. Midnight hearings and partisan blame is not the solution. This is a unique opportunity to fix a system that has been broken for a long time.

Our government committed $5 billion to fight terrorism and with the power of enormous public support, it's time to put similar major support behind our veterans and military personnel. They have made tremendous sacrifice for the freedom we enjoy, and the very least we can do as a grateful country is provide quality health care as promised.